Mar22 Alt ?s Freethinker
by Jacoby (11-12).
1. Which
president made it clear that he regarded the Jeffersonian wall of separation
not as a flexible metaphor but as the foundation of the American system of
government? (317).
2. Not
only the Christian right but many representatives of mainstream religions have
retrospectively what? (329).
3. What
was the life crisis that changed Viola Gregg Liuzzo’s orthodox faith? (334).
4. At its core, feminism can only be understood
as an attack on what? (340).
5. For the past four decades, the militant religious
right has mounted a tireless assault on what? (347).
6. Religion is so much a part of the public
square that a majority of Americans say they would refuse to vote for whom for
president? (354).
7. During the past two decades, study after study
has documented the __________ of basic scientific facts among American public-school
students and their teachers? (360).
8. Fundamentalist, antimodernist religion has,
since the twenties, been a significant player in the _________ of the
scientific curriculum at the elementary and secondary school level? (361).
9 The _______________ of scientific
terminology to placate the religiously correct cannot help but undermine
Americans’s ability to make crucial distinction between scientific fact and theological
opinion? (361).
Alternative discussion questions.
1.
Would the Catholic
church expand its base if it permitted a woman to serve as a Cardinal or the
Pope?
2.
Based on what you have
read in Jacoby’s Freethinker , do you
think separation of church and state will be clearly separated in fifty years
in the United States?
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